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Significant changes in
sovereignty post-Westphalia-treaty
(excluding
succession
that retains the same borders):
1918:
Breakup of Austria-Hungary
1918:
formation of Yugoslavia
1920-1925:
partitioning of the Ottoman Empire
→
League of Nations Class A mandates
1920-1932:
British Mandate of Mesopotamia
, formed from
Baghdad province
and
Basra province
, eventually became Iraq
1920-1949:
British Mandate of Palestine
1946:
Transjordan
gains independence (and
eventually becomes "Jordan"
)
1948:
creation of Israel
1920 - 1946:
French Mandate of Syria
1920 - 1943:
French Mandate of Lebanon
European decolonization
1960:
Cyprus gains independence from Britain
1997:
Hong Kong transfered to China
1974:
Turkish invasion of Cyprus
1991:
breakup of the USSR
1991 - 2001: the
breakup of Yugoslavia
into Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Macedonia